Heracles lesson

maa32 · 23 Jun 2003, 05:57 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Heracles lesson
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:57:59 -0700
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Latro has very selective amnesia - note that he is able to perform the=20
wrestling moves with perfection once he is reminded of basic strategy.  He=20
needs a reminder - he doesn't know the full extent of his capabilities. You=
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average soldier, no matter how he is coached, won't be able to beat a maste=
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from verbal advice.  Latro didn't need to learn the moves through repetitio=
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they were already in his muscle memory.  This is one aspect of realism that=
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think we've ignored - no matter how much you tell the average man on the=20
street how to punch, or what kind of advice you give him, he can't outbox R=
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Jones or Lennox Lewis. Unless the advice reawakens old or natural abilities=
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Note that Latro defeats the trainer of the Spartans with ease.  He has=20
problems with wrestling Pausanias because ... Hermes likes him?

So Latro remembers how to use a sword but not to wrestle ... why?  Perhaps=20
because the knowledge of wrestling was from a different, more remote lifeti=
me.
 Remember that he only loses because Heracles tells him to throw the fight.

Marc Aramini

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